PokemGO theme documentation

To make your experience pleasant, we've added as much info as needed in this documentation. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this documentation, please acces our Support Center
Also, feel free to suggest any new features you may want in this theme and we will consider adding it for the next theme updates. Once you have purchased this theme you would have full access to all upcoming theme updates.

Cheers,
Tiguan

Using WordPress

Documentation is related to this particular theme and explains how to setup and use most of its specific options and features. If you are not familiar with using WordPress itself, we would like to provide some resources intended for users who are new to WordPress but it may also be useful for the more experienced users.

Other resources

Requirements

Here we will present you the recommended configuration under which the PokemGO theme would work perfectly. Those are not absolute values, the theme performance depends on many factors like the host performance, server configuration and the number of visitors.

Server requirements

WordPress 4.0 or later

Apache (not tested on Nginx)

php.ini memory limit: 40MB (recommended: 64M)

PHP version 5.2.4 or greater (recommended: PHP 5.4 or greater)

MySQL version 5.0 or greater (recommended: MySQL 5.5 or greater)

For optimal performance the server requires some settings to be made, the optimizations include:

Choose a good hosting service - choosing a good web hosting will increase your website performance.

Enable compression on your website - less time to load your pages, and less bandwidth used over all.

Use P3 Plugin Profiler to see which plugins are slowing down your site. Some poorly coded plugins may impact your site performance.

Hosting requirements

If WordPress performs fine on your host, the theme should too.Hosting performance is depended on your WordPress configuration, plugin configuration and general OS configuration. Also a CDN solution like Cloud Flare should help a lot.

Recommended Plugins

PokemGO comes with several plugins which will extend the theme basic functionality. We warmly recommend you to use them if you want to make the most of the theme features. Go to Appearance - Install Plugins to install and activate plugins.

The free plugins recommended by PokemGO:

WP QUADS - Quick AdSense Reloaded

Content Aware Sidebars

MailChimp for WordPress

Mashshare Share Buttons

Font Awesome 4 Menus

I Recommend This

Simple Author Box

Menu Social Icons

Simple Ajax Auth

WP-PageNavi

KIA Subtitle

The premium plugins used by PokemGO:

WPBakery Visual Composer

Taqyeem - WordPress Review Plugin

Arqam - Social Counter Plugin

Slider Revolution

All the free plugins are hosted on official WordPress repository so you will have access to all upcoming updates, they are 100% free and you can use it on other themes as well.

For the premium plugins you get with the theme you don’t need a buyer license to use them. Since we have the extended license we give all our clients plugin updates through theme updates. There is only one license per purchase – so only we can use this license to get the updates and then share the update with our clients.

Theme Installation

On your local computer extract the ZIP folder called Jumbi-tf. After extracting files you will open the folder called PokemGO-tf where you will find more folders (child-theme, demos, documentation, licensing, update-logs)

Locate the pokemgo.zip in the PokemGO-tf folder (this is the theme you want to install).

After downloading the files, you can complete installation in two different ways:

WordPress Theme Manager

Please go to Appearance > Themes > Add new > Upload, select zipped theme folder called pokemgo.zip and press Install Now button. The Wordpress will do the rest for you.

If you have existing content and featured images, you will have to install Regenerate Thumbnails plugin and run it from Tools > Regen. Thumbnails

Regenerate Thumbnails This plugin will help you a lot when you are switching to a new WordPress theme and you already have a website with existing content. You should actually use it for any new theme. You just need to run this plugin once and it will (re)generate all your uploaded image sizes to match your new theme layout. That way your theme will use proper and optimized image sizes and it will improve website performance significantly.

Menu Setup

PokemGO uses standard WordPress menu system for navigation.

In order to setup your menus, go to Appearance - Menus.

You simply need to create your menu and drag and drop pages you want to show. After menu is created, you need to assign this menu to a specific theme location. PokemGO theme provides 4 different theme locations to assign your menus:

Top Menu - this is secondary menu you can optionally use in header top bar.

Header Menu - this is your main menu navigation.

Footer Menu - this is a menu you can use in footer area at the bottom of your website. You can use both social profiles and regular menu links.

As you can seein our demo site, we have a main footerand a sub footer area. The main footer is handled by Footer Widgets and the sub footer can be buil via Theme Options - Footer as is shown in image bellow:

To add social icons Footer Menu, see the attached screenshot:

Drop-Down Mega Menu

The mega menu can display two types of layouts: left links with images and only big images:

Left links with images:

Only big images:

To enable mega menu, first of all enable it from Theme Options panel via Header - Main Menu then arrange the category menu items as shownbelow:

Header Constructor

The PokemGO theme has a awesome feature that allows you to drag and drop the desired block to easy build your header with few clicks.

Every new code block creates an unique ad widget in the widget section of WordPress.

Go to Appearance - Widgets and drag the new ad widget you've just created to the Sticky Sidebar.

Updating the theme

Before updating your theme it's strongly recommended to BACK UP YOUR THEME OPTIONSas shownbelow, otherwise you theme options will be lost:

Navigate to Theme Options panel - Backup Options

Press the Backup your Options

After updating the theme, press the Restore Options.

Before you update, it is best practice to:

Always backup your Theme Options

Always check the theme update logs

Always backup the files and the database, in case something goes wrong with the server you could use the backup to revert to the previous state. For more information on how to backup check the official documentation.

Emphty the cache after you update the theme

Update the premium plugins via Appearance - Install Plugins

You can update the theme manually or automatically:

Updating manually:

Log into your ThemeForest account, then in your Downloads tab look for the PokemGO theme

Click the Download button next to PokemGO theme and choose to download the Installable WordPress Theme (the WordPress file)

Place your site in maintenance mode, for this you could use a plugin (ex. Ultimate Maintenance Mode, WP Maintenance Mode, … etc.)

Connect to your FTP account using your favorite FTP client

Go to “your site/wp-content/themes” folder location and backup your PokemGO theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to delete it. Your content (posts, pages, images, etc) will not be lost, but please note that if you have modifications on the theme code they will be lost if you don't use the child-theme.

Extract PokemGO.zip to get the updated PokemGO theme folder.

Drag and drop the new “pokemgo” theme folder into “your site/wp-content/themes” and overwrite the existing files.

Update the premium plugins via Appearance - Install Plugins

Updating automatically:

Please fill the required fields and you will get update notifications for your theme directly on your admin dashboard. In order to automatically update your theme, go to Updates page of your Dashboard. If there is a new theme update available, you will have the ability to update your theme directly from this page.

Translation & RTL

You can translate your theme using .pot file and Poedit software or using our built-in translator.

Translation using .pot file and Poedit software:

For all those who prefer translation with files included into theme we recommend to use .pot file.

Translate/change words in any language you want, then save the file to your hard drive changing its name according to your language code, e.g. for the French – Français you must save it as fr_FR.po Please make sure that you have selected All files on save, so the software will generate a .mo file too, which also need to be renamed according to your language code.

Navigate to your main WordPress directory, open wp-config.php and search for:

define(‘WPLANG’,'');

Change it according to your language code and files you’ve just saved with poedit, e.g. for the French – Français you must add: